Using Gui functions without Gui.showMainWindow() in python script

[mancunia89]

Hi

I was wondering if it is possible to use some FreeCADGui module functions without actually firing up the FreeCAD window.
I mainly need just the App and Part module functions in my script, but I need to name my object nodes in the scenegraph. Currently, I do this by getting the root of the particular object and then doing root.setName . The seond major function I do using Gui is export the scene as .iv

Is it possible to do this without firing up the main window?

[ickby]

without gui part there is no scene graph, hence no way to set node names. I also think that the .iv exporter is a functionality of the coin3d scene graph, hence not available without the gui. but not exactly ssure about the last point.

[mancunia89]

I just saw the Gui.setupWithoutGUI() function. I am not exactly sure what its functionality is or if it can be used to accomplish the above.

[wmayer]

I just saw the Gui.setupWithoutGUI() function.

This doesn't help because it doesn't initialize a couple of things you would need later.

Instead you have to use the method showWindow() and then hide it afterwards.

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import FreeCADGui as Gui
Gui.showMainWindow()
mw=Gui.getMainWindow()
mw.hide()

But note attributes like Gui.ActiveDocument or so can't be used because no event loop is running and thus all the Qt signal/slot or event handling is not working.

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...
doc=App.newDocument()
doc.addObject("Part::Box")
doc.recompute()
vp=Gui.getDocument(doc.Name).getObject(doc.ActiveObject.Name)
vp.IV

[mancunia89]

I basically need to extract a named scenegraph. What I have done till now:

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import FreeCAD as App
import FreeCADGui as Gui
from PyQt4.QtGui import QMainWindow, QWorkspace, QAction, QApplication
from pivy import coin

app = QApplication([''])
Gui.setupWithoutGUI()
doc = App.newDocument()
box = doc.addObject("Part::Box")

doc.recompute()
root = Gui.subgraphFromObject(box)
root.setName('testing')

This allows me to set the names of each individual object. Now, is there a way to export this as iv/vrml ? From your response I couldn't understand if this is possible or not.

Thanks

[wmayer]

This allows me to set the names of each individual object. Now, is there a way to export this as iv/vrml ? From your response I couldn't understand if this is possible or not.

Of course it is. With "vp.IV" you get a string representation of the sub-graph and to export it to a file simply open a file and write the content to it.

And if you have a recent version of the development version you can even write this:

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# get the view provider of the part object
vp=Gui.getDocument(doc.Name).getObject(doc.ActiveObject.Name)
# set the name to the node
vp.RootNode.setName("testing")
# export
Gui.export([doc.ActiveObject], "Inventor.iv")
Gui.export([doc.ActiveObject], "vrml.wrl")

[mancunia89]

Thank you, this is very helpful